Mees van Deventer

Mees van Deventer is a fourth year AMFI student, studying Fashion and Branding. Her interest in film and horror has fuelled her topic ‘Body Horror Fashion’. “In my paper I used psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection and anthropologist Mary Douglas’ notion of “Dirt is matter out of place” to investigate fashion inspired by Body Horror. I examined how Body Horror Fashion confronts us with our own fleshiness and refuse, and how this confrontation blurs the borders of societal classifications. I delve into how the implosion in meaning caused by Body Horror Fashion can make us question common notions about bodily filth.”